Here is my weekly update on what is hot in our development teams in calendar week (CW) 09.

IN FOCUS

Community Innovation Program

“On 7 December 2007, Sun Microsystems Inc. announced a new million-dollar program to foster innovation in six of the open-source projects it sponsors and contributes to. We are pleased to report that OpenOffice.org was included.

The “$1 Million Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program,” is generous in many ways. Although Sun will be handing out the actual cash and is ultimately the arbiter of who is eligible to be granted those cash awards, each community has been given the freedom, within limits, to devise its own focus and administer the program.

OpenOffice.org's interest lies in encouraging the development of technology and endeavours that advance the community and its products, and our Community is international. Accordingly, we have established “The OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program,” which takes the form of a world-wide contest, with contestants competing for Gold, Silver, or Bronze prizes. Cash Prizes will be given to the winners in accordance with these Official Rules, as well as to those who have earned "Honourable Mention," except where international legal considerations prohibit payments of this nature. In that case, OpenOffice.org will give the winners public honour and attention for their work.”

source: http://development.openoffice.org/community_innovation_program.html

WEEKLY SCHEDULE

• CALC
  http://sc.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • OpenDocument formula implementation: Function Wizard

    • OOXML import filter: Chart import

    • ODF formula specification

    • Collaborative spreadsheet editing

  • Finished:

    • Selection appearance

    • OOXML import filter: Drawing Layer import

    • OpenDocument formula implementation: Mapping

• CHART
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Errorbars from cell ranges

    • Multiple color lists

  • Finished:

    • Handling of empty cells

• DATABASE
  http://dba.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Sun Report Builder: layouting in the new wizard

    • Sun Report Builder: Charts: filling with data

  • Ongoing:

    • Macros in database documents: milestone 2 (script/macro migration)

  • Finished:

    • Sun Report Builder: Charts: master/detail relationship

    • Sun Report Builder: extend the existing wizard to create a new-style report

• IMPRESS, DRAW & GRAPHIC SYSTEM LAYER
  http://graphics.openoffice.org/
  http://gsl.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Mac OS X Aqua Port: bugfixes, startcenter

    • PDF import filter: restoring text layout for Draw/Impress import (new implementation)

    • Presenter Screen: Finalizing baseline changes

    • Impress tables: bugfixing

    • Drawing layer primitives: Transition to primitives and stripping old code

    • MS OOXML import: support for shape import in Writer (VML)

  • Finished:

    • Presenter Screen: Refactor slide sorter so it is usable from presenter screen extension

    • MS OOXML import: gradient filling, color transformations, connector shapes

    • Resolving FontConfig issues

• WRITER, MATH & FRAMEWORK
  http://sw.openoffice.org/
  http://framework.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • Writer: Integration of t602 filter

    • Framework: supporting CH2000 developers to integrate UOF-Filters

    • Framework: Improvements of registration dialog

  • Ongoing:

    • Framework: UI for selection of ODF version

    • Framework: Concurrent file access

    • Writer: MS OOXML Import: Import of VML objects and OLE objects

    • Writer: ODF 1.2 – Position and space in lists

    • Writer: Refactoring – separate core from layout

    • Writer: Multiple page layout

    • Linguistic: rework linguistic configuration to support multi-pathes and extensions for dictionaries

  • Finished:

    • Framework: Preserving arbitrary meta data in meta.xml

    • Writer: MediaWiki Extension

    • Writer: Improved "notes" functionality

    • Writer: Cross references to headings

    • Linguistic: Prototyping Grammar Checking support in Writer

• PROGRAMMABILITY
  http://api.openoffice.org/
  http://extensions.openoffice.org/
  http://installation.openoffice.org/
  http://ucb.openoffice.org/
  http://udk.openoffice.org/
  http://util.openoffice.org/

  • Started Tasks:

    • -

  • Ongoing Tasks:

    • Digital Signatures: Investigate mscrypto/NSS functionality/problems wrt handling of intermediate certificates

    • Extensions infrastructure: Extensible Help Step 2 : Support for tree files

    • Extensions infrastructure: New Graphical User Interface for Extension Manager : Implementation

    • OOo Vista Readiness: OOo 3.0 Tasks

    • Mac OS X Aqua port: Accessibility: Implementation

    • UNO API Tests as CWS “Ready for QA” criteria : Implementation

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF / XML
  http://xml.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • ODF TC: Default Properties Values

    • OASIS ODF 1.2 Specification Document

  • Finished:

    • -

• ODF TOOLKIT
  http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: Separation Core / Branding: three-layer Installation Sets for StarOffice/OpenOffice.org

    • Restructuring of OOo packages: new package structure

    • ODF Toolkit, ODF DOM

  • Finished:

    • -

• VISUAL DESIGN
  http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/

  • Started:

    • Design StartUp Dialog

  • Ongoing:

    • OOo "development" flyer artwork

    • OOo "education" flyer artwork

  • Finished:

    • -

• ALL TEAMS

  • Started:

    • -

  • Ongoing:

    • Patch evaluation and integration

    • Evaluation of requirements in Issuetracker

  • Finished:

    • -